Extension talk:SimpleForms.php

There is a MediaWiki API under development which will allow modifcation of content via request variables inherently.

It appears that links do not parser in the edit summary e.g. this diff. Would be a nice to be able to link to the form deriving content--Sven 21:29, 30 June 2007 (NZST)

SimpleForms expects wikitext with links etc to be passed, but you have to put <nowiki> around it so that it's not parsed before being assigned to the form attribute. --Nad 22:01, 30 June 2007 (NZST)

Edit forms

Initially I was thinking of having an #edit parser-function which extends the #form functionality to behave differently from action=edit and the CreateArticle specialpage.

After starting the SimpleDatabase specialpage I realised that being able to open a form ajaxly that is connected to another articles content (that article acts as the forms data-source) is more intuitive, and doesn't require two different ways of defining forms.

Possibly a better solution still could be to use an editform parameter with action=edit. The parameter would determine which definition to update (by template name, with id too if necessary to disambiguate). The parameter should also be able to specify to update all (which could be a good setting for the normal edit action's url too). Maybe allowing a list of template/id's would be good too.

• Each template definition needs to be able specify a list of forms which are able to edit it.
• Using action=edit with forms could be the best way to handle article updating since it would use MediaWiki's edit tokens properly

Semantic Forms

This way of integrating with the existing edit system is how the SemanticForms CreateForm special-page works. Maybe SimpleForms should not try and handle the structured data side of things at all and should only handle the functionality-based inputs.

• Semantic red-link example

Bugs

• Must have SimpleForms.php at ../extensions/SimpleForms/SimpleForms.php or a fatal error occurs.
• "undefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefined..." appears under edit buttons unless Mootools is disabled (per Gero), but then that kills a lot of SF's functionality...
• Ajax example makes the text after it monospace.
• Ajax form example doesn't work right for me; it just brings in the entire page's contents the form is on.

-Eep² 22:28, 17 August 2007 (NZST)